•Born in The Hague Rink Groenveld (14 December 1948) and Peter Cook (30 November 1949) first worked together in the Hurricanes , where she played bass and guitar respectively . The Hurricanes performed frequently in Catholic youth centers and even had its own fan club . In 1967, the Hurricanes took part in a talent contest organized by record Negram Delta . They won them the first prize : a recording sheet . In Bovema studio in Heemstede they recorded two songs : "Love in minor" , the Ivy League , and "One Day " , written by Peter de Ronde, former guitarist of the Golden Earrings . The Hurricanes were hoping for a breakthrough. Using the single That was not the case . The flop was for Peter and Rink go under the name Pop Shop , but much further they did not come. Rise Couple by "We need the Netherlands to move forward ," was their conclusion. According to Peter , there was at that time a lot of interest in French music . The people listened to France Gall , Johnny Halliday , Françoise Hardy and Michel Polnareff . Peter remembered how successful Adamo had occurred. Houtrusthallen in the Hague Jacques Senf had organized the concert with the singer , including the Golden Earrings and the Hurricanes had occurred. Peter Rink and decided to move . Their field to Paris From someone Bovema they got to contact the producer of the new singer Julien Clerc . Tip contact Who worked at Pathe - Marconi , the French branch of the EMI group . Peter and Rink strokes down in Paris . The guys just got in at Pathe , but the producer was not immediately reachable . It did work to do , but that was canceled . At the last moment an appointment After some time, they are nevertheless managed to deal with the producer knowledge. Peter and Rink let him hear a tape of new songs they had written themselves . The man responded terribly excited . He was busy , he said, but they would certainly hear from him . That did not happen. They ran out of money and weeks they lived on bread . " Every day we walked through Paris in the hope that Pathe would respond positively. , But after half a year we had to give our French adventure ." - www.zingzing.nl